1,000 French citizens joined ISIS, French military support will not involve ground troops

Paris (IraqiNews.com) The French President Francois Hollande said, in a conference held at the Elysee Palace in the capital Paris, that “there are a thousand French citizens who joined ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The President of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, gave me in my visit to the Kurdistan Region the names of foreign nationals, which included some Czech citizens.”

Hollande affirmed that French military support to Iraq will be limited to air operations and non-interference by land.

He stated “We will not intervene in Iraq in ground operations, but the air support is important against the organization ISIS. France contributed by delivering weapons to Iraq to fight the terrorists,” pointing out that “Iraq and Syria represent the biggest risk in the world, so we decided to contribute in ensuring the security of Iraq”.